pone

Skillet-baked cornbread

Pone is a type of cornbread associated with the American South, traditionally baked in a skillet or on a griddle without milk or eggs: She served catfish with a side of pone.

The word comes from an Algonquian term for bread.

Corn pone appears in phrases suggesting rural simplicity or folksy humor: corn-pone philosophy.

Southern

skillet

Shallow pan for frying

hushpuppies · Appalachia · Dixie · soul food · biscuits · collards · chitlins · molasses · sorghum · fatback

cornmeal

maize

Cob-bearing cereal crop

hoecake · masa · arepa · mealie · fufu · mush · stone-ground · yellow · white · tortilla

baking

skillet

Shallow pan for frying

  • ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
  • crustHard outer layer
  • goldenBright yellow, or precious

crispy · wedge · slice · pan · greased · batter · dense · moist · crumbly · rustic

grievance

complaint

Expression of discontent

moan · whine · lament · objection · protest · discontent · dissatisfaction · criticism · cavil · carp

Categories
Opposites
leavening and texture

ponesoufflé

Baked puffed egg dish

angel food cake · chiffon cake · sponge cake · brioche · leavened bread

culinary sophistication

ponebrioche

Enriched French bread

croissant · artisan bread · patisserie · French pastry · fancy bread

grain type

ponewheat bread

Loaf from grain flour

white bread · rye bread · oat bread

Phrases
Family

cornpone

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G